Mass. takes heat for its vaccine rollout
Updated January 27, 2021, 2:30 a.m.
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Many lack digital tools, skills to sign up for vaccination
Massachusetts is finally taking critical steps to hasten the pace of our COVID-19 vaccine rollout (âGovernor quickens vaccine rollout, adds sites,â Page A1, Jan. 26). But if wide-scale vaccination is primarily dependent on thousands of people signing up for appointments through a complex online portal, we will leave behind our most vulnerable residents, many of whom donât have access to the digital tools or skills necessary to sign up.
Nationally, 18 percent of all households donât have Internet access and 23 percent donât have a home computer, and 41 percent of people covered by Medicare donât have access to the Internet from home. These major gaps in digital access and knowledge create significant barriers for millions of Americans, and thousands of people in Massachusetts, who are unable to reac
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SPECIAL ELECTION FIREWORKS The Boston City Council is in a tizzy over what to do if outgoing Boston Mayor Marty Walsh triggers a special election when he becomes Labor Secretary.
Here s the problem. Walsh s resignation from City Hall is expected to come right before an important March 5 deadline. If the mayor leaves before that date, it will trigger a special election in the late spring or early summer.
But the city s regularly-scheduled election would still go forward in the fall. Boston would have four elections in a matter of months, since both cycles would have preliminary and general contests. The city has the potential to have four mayors in a year.